Project Manager - UK Hub

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Location: UK Hub (Blended home working)

Salary: Competitive + Vodafone Benefits

Hours: Full time (37.5 hours per week – Mon to Fri)

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Vodafone UK’s blended working approach means you’ll come to your contracted hub location office as and when needed to get things done for your role and for tasks that require it, otherwise you will be able to work from home. Our ‘Office in a Box’ home-working kit will be available for all who need it during your onboarding journey.

What will you be doing?

Be part of the Business Technology Solutions for Vodafone UK, the team that design and develop our converged communications solutions, drive efficiency through automation and AI, whilst implement the solutions directly with our customers. We help thousands of businesses across the country with our connectivity solutions.

Sitting in Vodafone UK Professional Services, this Project Manager role is predominantly customer facing and delivering projects for our external customers, these projects will vary in complexity and value, they will include a range of technologies & products produced by Vodafone and our 3rd parties.

This role is responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control, and completion of large and/or complex projects and/or sub-projects within a programme, ensuring consistency with best practices, defined processes and methodologies and aligned to Vodafone & Professional Services strategy and goals.

Who are we looking for?

An individual with a demonstrable track-record working as a Project Manager within the Telecoms sector, successfully delivering multiple, large-scale, high value, high-risk projects or programmes.

Structured thinking, analytical, with excellent problem-solving skills

Experience of working in a variety of customer facing projects

A skill of interpreting business plans and business drivers and translating those into project based delivery models

Excellent interpersonal communication, presentation and negotiation skills

Relevant experience of managing Vendor/Commercial relationships, 3rd party partners

Robust project governance experience

Professional qualification in Project Management, such as Prince2 Practitioner, PMI or MSP and ideally Agile methods

Eligible for SC clearance

Applicants will be required to travel to the customers site on a regular basis

What’s in it for you?

An excellent remuneration and bonus package with 28 days holiday entitlement, in addition to bank holidays and paid leave for charity projects. We offer an extensive benefits package that can be tailored to suit you and your family, including employee discounts, retail vouchers, pension plan and share schemes. We’re also proud to provide a Reconnect programme with flexibility to support individuals returning to work after a career break and our market-leading parental leave policies. We’re committed to supporting you throughout every step of your career at Vodafone.

Together we can

Vodafone UK are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and all offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet the regulators standards.

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Posting end date: 08/01/23